baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2002178420-A (JP)
Title: Container with flute made of paper and its manufacturing method
Inventor: ITO SADAMI
IPC: B31B50/59
Filed: 2000-12-13
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an enlarging deformation of a shell of a container made of paper with longitudinal flutes due to an external force and an enlarging deformation of a shell of a container at a heating working time of a container content at a low cost by using a composite sheet obtained by adhesively laminating a synthetic resin softened by quenching after heating to soften having about a half value of a cost of a PET(polyester) film adhering sheet in a softened curtain state immediately after melting as a container material. SOLUTION: A method for manufacturing the container with flutes made of paper forms the container with the flutes by integrally standing molding the shell of the container having many vertical flutes on a periphery of a bottom of the container of paper. The method comprises the steps of heating the composite sheet obtained by adhesively laminating a synthetic resin layer 1 cured by quenching after heating to be softened by a press mold as heated pair of the adhesively laminated composite sheet 2, integrally standing forming the shell 5 of the container having the many vertical flutes 4 on the periphery of the bottom 3 of the container while softening the layer 1, quickly cooling the container 6 obtained by mold releasing, and curing the layer 1 to strengthening the rigidity of the flutes 4 to enable preventing of enlarging of the shell 5 of the container.
Patent JP-2002189467-A (JP)
Title: Playing control method, playing controller and recording medium
Inventor: MATSUDA KAZUNORI
IPC: G10H1/00
Filed: 2000-12-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a playing controller which eliminates the mis-timing of musical tone generation between an automatic playing part and another part. SOLUTION: This playing controller has a playing data memory means 10, an editing means 20 corresponding to a setting means of this invention and an automatic playing means 30. The output from the automatic playing means 30 is transmitted through an output distributing means 31 to an internal sound source 117 and an automatic playing piano 200.
Patent JP-2002189814-A (JP)
Title: Examination question print management system
Inventor: KATO HAJIME
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2000-12-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the cost for conducting an examination and quickly cope with a trouble such as errors of examination questions by allowing the manuscript deadline for the examination questions to be extended to a date proximate to the examination start time. SOLUTION: This examination question print management system 1 is installed at each examination site or the like, and it is provided with a communication interface 3 conducting communications with a network 2, a host computer 5 connected to a head office 4 managing the examination via the communication interface 3, and a stencil printer 6 connected to the host computer 5 to print the print data transmitted from the host computer 5.
Patent JP-2002189457-A (JP)
Title: Method for driving liquid crystal display device
Inventor: ENARI HIROHISA
IPC: G09G3/36
Filed: 2000-12-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for driving a simple matrix type liquid crystal display device capable of displaying gradations without flickers at a low cost with a simple construction without using an expensive driver dedicated to PWM driving. SOLUTION: In the method for driving the simple matrix type liquid crystal display device 10 provided with a simple matrix type liquid crystal panel 11, and a scanning line liquid crystal driver 12 and a data line liquid crystal driver 13 for driving this liquid crystal panel, the method for driving the simple matrix type liquid crystal display device 10 is configured so as to drive the liquid crystal panel 11 by binary ON-OFF control by the scanning line liquid crystal driver 12 and the data line liquid crystal driver 13, and also perform a single frame gradations display by inputting data line display data latching signal S15 to the data line liquid crystal driver 13 several times within a scanning time for a single scanning line of the scanning line liquid crystal driver 12 by a data line scan-shift clock signal S12.
Patent JP-2002190021-A (JP)
Title: Device and method for detecting position
Inventor: SUGAWARA KENJI
IPC: G06T7/00
Filed: 2000-12-22
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent erroneous recognition in position detection by pattern matching. SOLUTION: The same template images are overlapped while changing the relative position, and the correlative value is computed in each position to obtain the amount of coincidence. The amount of coincidence takes the maximum value in the coincident position of both images, while rapidly falls in its vicinity. Using this, the amount of coincidence is computed from the correlative value of the template image and an input image, and the coincident position is determined on condition that the same fall of the amount of coincidence appears in the vicinity of the maximum value.
Patent JP-2002189045-A (JP)
Title: Reflected electric power monitor circuit and its adjusting method
Inventor: SAKAI YUJI
IPC: G01R29/08
Filed: 2000-12-22
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of the difficulty in adjusting the phase and attenuation quantity, since the reflected electric power monitor circuit of a high-frequency transmitting circuit has been adjusted using the method for replacing a chip component. SOLUTION: The adjustment is facilitated by using a variable attenuator 71, which can have its attenuation quantity varied with a control voltage 72 at a coupling terminal 4 of a directional coupler 1.
Patent JP-2002194366-A (JP)
Title: Freezer oil composition and fluid composition for freezer
Inventor: SHIMOMURA YUJI
IPC: F25B1/00
Filed: 2000-12-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a freezer oil composition which is sufficiently high in both lubricity and stability to heat and hydrolysis under a cooling medium atmosphere and has excellent cooling medium compatibility and electric insulating property, and to provide a fluid composition which uses the freezer oil composition and is used for freezers. SOLUTION: This freezer oil composition is characterized by containing an aliphatic cyclic polybasic carboxylate compound and an aromatic polybasic carboxylate compound and/or an aliphatic chain polybasic carboxylate compound.
Patent JP-2002195044-A (JP)
Title: Intake structure of engine
Inventor: ICHIKAWA HIROYUKI
IPC: F02B31/02
Filed: 2000-12-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance a swirl in a cylinder by preventing air intake interference between ports. SOLUTION: This intake structure for an engine is provided with a tangential port 3 adjacent to a swirl port an exit part 9 of the tangential port 3 is bent with respect to the main port part 10 and at the bent part 11, an inner wall 12, at least facing a direction opposite the intake air flow coming from the swirl port is formed into a sharp edge. The flow is separated by a sharp edge, and since a swirl R is generated in the right downstream side, the flow counterposed to the flow from the swirl port disappears to prevent the lessening of the swirl.
Patent JP-2002196391-A (JP)
Title: Shutter for camera
Inventor: YAMAGISHI SHIGERU
IPC: G03B9/14
Filed: 2000-12-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lens shutter for a camera constituted so that two shutter blades made of synthetic resin are suitably actuated. SOLUTION: The two shutter blades 4 and 5 are made of the synthetic resin and rotatably attached to shafts 1h and 1i, and constituted so that they are simultaneously rotated in an opposite direction by the reciprocative actuation of a driving pin 3 fit in the slots 4a and 5a of the blades 4 and 5 so as to open/close an aperture part 1a. Then, circular arc shape projected lines 4b and 4c are formed along an actuation locus on the blade 4, and projected lines 5b and 5c are similarly formed on the blade 5, and the projected light 4b and 5b slide so that the projected lines 4c and 5c are made to slide at the time of performing open/close actuation.  Therefore, sliding area by the projected lines is small and the sliding part is moved, so that the shutter is advantageous to speeding-up and durability in spite of the shutter blade made of the synthetic resin, and its configration is advantageous to the reduction of cost of the entire shutter.
Patent JP-2002192504-A (JP)
Title: Method for sticking sliced veneer to base material having low-permeability
Inventor: TSUKAMOTO MASASUKE
IPC: B27D5/00
Filed: 2000-12-25
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reveal a waterproof performance that makes adhesive particles hardly exude into a porous layer, while keeping moisture permeability so that the moisture evaporating from sliced veneer and an adhesive on the occasion of thermal contact bonding can pass through a release layer and be absorbed by the porous layer. SOLUTION: In this method of sticking the sliced veneer 2 to a low- permeability base 1, the sliced veneer 2 is laminated integrally on the base 1 by thermal contact bonding. A sheet body 5 having on one side the release layer 3 subjected to release treatment and the porous layer 4 on the other is prepared. The release layer 3 of this sheet body 5 is constituted of threads of 50-150 d (denier) with the density of 150-250 pcs./sq.in. and crushed by calendering so that the aperture of the texture is 1 μm or below. The sheet body 5 is set so that the release layer 3 thereof is in contact with the sliced veneer 2 and the thermal contact bonding is applied thereto.
Patent JP-2002192257-A (JP)
Title: Working method and working device for press parts
Inventor: MINE HIDEO
IPC: B21D43/04
Filed: 2000-12-26
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a working method and a working device capable of working the coaxiality with high precision and maintaining highly precise quality even in the mass production in press parts which requires the coaxiality of a boss part in the center of a motor bracket or the like and a flange outside diameter part. SOLUTION: Forming of center boss parts 1 and a flange outside diameter part 3 are worked in the same process. Even in the same process, the boss parts 1 to be a reference is worked beforehand, then a half-blanked working of the outer diameter 4 of the flange part is conducted after working of the boss part.
Patent JP-2002192506-A (JP)
Title: Beam material and girder material
Inventor: UNO TAKAHIRO
IPC: E04C3/12
Filed: 2000-12-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beam material and a girder material being inexpensive and excellent in outward appearance by using glued laminated wood. SOLUTION: The beam material 20 is prepared by providing on the surface of the glued laminated wood 10 a decorative layer 18 formed of resin impregnated paper whereon wood grain is printed. Therefore the outward appearance of the glued laminated wood 10 is enhanced and the beam material 20 having an external appearance of a solid material can be provided inexpensively. Since the decorative layer 18 is formed of the resin impregnated paper, the strength and the humidity resistance of the beam material 20 can be enhanced.
Patent JP-2002203616-A (JP)
Title: Terminal table connector, electronic equipment, and mounting structure of terminal table and electronic equipment
Inventor: YAMANE JUN
IPC: H01R9/00
Filed: 2000-12-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal table connector needing smaller space and an easier operation for fixing it. SOLUTION: With the terminal table connector 1 of a card-edge type consisting of a terminal table connector main body 100 so structured to be mounted on an electronic equipment ease 200 and plugged in and connected to a card-edge terminal of a board housed inside the electronic equipment case 200, a slider 110 free in sliding is fitted on the back of the terminal table connector main body 100, a sliding movement of which is to perform a fixing lock and its releasing between the electronic equipment case 200 and the terminal board connector main body 100.
Patent JP-2002195729-A (JP)
Title: Refrigerator
Inventor: FUJISAWA KATSUYOSHI
IPC: F25D17/08
Filed: 2000-12-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the in-refrigerator temperature from being influenced by a cooler during stoppage of the compressor of the compressor of a refrigerator or during the defrosting operation, and to stabilize the temperature of chill blown out of a cooler chamber, immediately after the operation of the compressor. SOLUTION: Chill is discharged into a refrigerator, after the temperature of the cooler 7 has become stable after operation of the compressor, by heat- insulating the cooler chamber 6 and the interior of the refrigerator. A damper 30 is arranged in a return air duct 15 which a moves toward the cooler chamber 6 from within the refrigerator, and the interior of the refrigerator and the cooler chamber 6 are demarcated during the stoppage of the compressor. The number of rotations of a blower is varied, depending the environment or the load, and also the unit natural frequency of a blower holder lying in a variable region is avoided.
Patent JP-2001283019-A (JP)
Title: System/method for transmitting information, robot, information recording medium, system/method for online sales and sales server
Inventor: YOKOYAMA MIGAKU
IPC: G06Q30/06
Filed: 2000-12-28
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To succeed genetic information between robot devices. SOLUTION: In a crossing system, a robot device for succeeding genetic information is provided with a genetic information storing part 2 for storing generic information on this robot device 1, a genetic information sending part 3 for outputting the genetic information stored in the part 2 to outside and a genetic information generating part 4 for updating the genetic information stored in the part 2 by autonomous behavior as shown in a figure 1.
Patent JP-2002165587-A (JP)
Title: Method for culturing mycelium and mycelial extract
Inventor: YOSHIMIZU NOBUHIRO
IPC: C12N1/14
Filed: 2000-11-29
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for culturing a mycelium by which the mycelium is artificially cultured and to obtain a mycelial extract extracted from the mycelium and having enhanced carcinostatic actions, immunopotentiating actions, etc. SOLUTION: This method for culturing the mycelium comprises a first step of culturing the mycelium, a second step of preparing a first culture medium from the mycelium cultured in the first step, a third step of proliferating a mold in the first culture medium prepared in the second step and a fourth step of culturing the mycelium in the resultant material obtained in the third step as a second culture medium and alternately repeating the third and fourth steps plural times. The mycelial extract is extracted from the mycelium obtained by carrying out the culturing in the steps.
Patent JP-2002186650-A (JP)
Title: Simple nursing care implement for toilet, shampoo, bathing, and bedclothes change
Inventor: ICHIYANAGI YOKO
IPC: A47C27/08
Filed: 2000-12-21
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a simple nursing care implement for toilet, shampoo, bathing, and bedclothes change which can improve the quality of everyday life of a person to be cared reduce the labor and the economic burden of a care-giver when carrying out the nursing care of toilet, shampoo, bathing, and bedclothes change at home. SOLUTION: Pressure sore prevention, toilet, shampoo, bathing, and bedclothes change can be readily carried out at home using domestic articles and recycling items by keeping the nursing care air bed 1, 1a, 1b with a small hole 3b in the air.
Patent JP-2002202932-A (JP)
Title: Free site
Inventor: KATO TERUKO
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2000-12-27
Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a free site capable of solving such problems that a banner advertisement is not easily clicked by an Internet user, and that the Internet user is charged for the use of a music piece or game of high quality, and there is a problem in safety of the payment, which stands in the way to the spread. SOLUTION: The Internet user 1 can be connected to a site 3 through the Internet 2 and read and use pictures, music pieces, games and the like accumulated in a data server 4 in a personal computer or cellular phone free through the site 3. A commercial requesting company 5 pays a price to the site 3 and integrates the image, picture, word or the like of its own commercial in the pictures, musical pieces, and games stored in the data server 4 to perform an advertisement to the Internet user 1.
Patent JP-2001515842-A (JP)
Title: 選択的Ｘａ因子阻害剤
IPC: C07K5/06
Filed: 1998-08-11
Abstract: (57)【要約】
哺乳動物Ｘａ因子に対して活性を有する新規化合物、それらの塩およびそれらに関連した組成物が開示される。これらの化合物はインビトロまたはインビボにおいて凝固疾患の予防または治療に有用であり、式（Ｉ）を有する。
Patent JP-2001514372-A (JP)
IPC: F42B12/08
Filed: 1998-08-24
Abstract: The invention relates to a jacketed projectile (100), comprising a tungsten carbide hard core (5) on the front side and an centered, interlocking soft core (8) placed on the hard core (5). A closed air space (6) is located between the front area (5a) of the hard core (5) and the tip of the projectile (4). This projectile configuration provides a very high penetration potential and good dynamic and ballistic properties, enabling the inventive projectiles to be used as munition for police snipers, especially to hit targets located behind a glass.
Patent JP-2001516124-A (JP)
Title: 力応答式検出器及び装置
IPC: E05F15/00
Filed: 1998-08-12
Abstract: (57)【要約】
力応答式センサは、上被覆層及び下被覆層（１０、１２）を具備し、上被覆層は、弾性があり、柔軟で、図示の容易のために透明に示されている。電気伝導性層（１４）は、伝導性層を二つの電気伝導性部材（１８、２０）から分離する、別個の個々の電気絶縁スペーサ（１６）を担持する。これらの部材（１８、２０）の各々は、複数の離間した弾性指部（２４、２８）を有し、二つの部材（１８、２０）の指部が互いに櫛状に組み合わされている。これら部材は、層（１０）上の薄膜として形成される。部材（１８、２０）がスペーサ（１６）によって支持されない場合、これら部材（１８、２０）は、上層（１０）の弾性によって、伝導性層（１４）から離間して通常保持される。加えられた力（Ｆ）に応答して、指部（２４、２８）の一つ以上は、対応する電気信号を生み出すことができるように押圧されて伝導性層（１４）と接触される。スペーサ（１６）の位置決めは、それらがセンサの全幅（ｗ）を増加させないことを保証する。センサは、モータ摺動可能な窓ガラスを有する窓開口内の障害物を検出するために、安全システム内に使用されることができる。
Patent JP-2001518293-A (JP)
Title: ヒトビタミンｄレセプターのアイソフォーム
IPC: A01K67/027
Filed: 1998-09-29
Abstract: (57)【要約】
本発明は、ヒトビタミンＤレセプター（ｈＶＤＲ）の新規なアイソフォームまたはｈＶＤＲの変異転写産物をコードしている単離されたポリヌクレオチド分子を提供する。これらの単離されたポリヌクレオチド分子は、たとえば化合物のＶＤＲアゴニストおよび／またはアンタゴニスト活性をスクリーニングする方法に利用できる。
Patent JP-2001518759-A (JP)
IPC: G02F1/13
Filed: 1998-09-18
Abstract: The invention provides a sensor system (800) for generating a sensor signal (Sout) corresponding to a filtered image of a scene. The system (800) incorporates a multielement array (526) and associated processing circuits for providing element signals in response to images projected onto it and a projecting lens assembly (502) for projecting images onto the array (526). The lens assembly (502) projects differently blurred images of the scene onto the array (526) for generating a measurement signal during a measurement phase and a local spatial average correction signal during a calibration phase. A light-diffusing shutter (522) is used for generating the differently blurred images. The system (800) substracts the measurement and correction signals of each element from one another to provide a difference signal and uses this signal to generate the sensor signal (Sout) during the measurement phase. The calibration phase is repeated on change of array temperature or incident radiation intensity, thereby reducing fixed pattern noise in the sensor signal (Sout) despite environmental change, and interrupting the measurement phase only infrequently.
Patent JP-2001523590-A (JP)
Title: チョッパミキシングスクリュー
IPC: B29C48/67
Filed: 1998-11-06
Abstract: (57)【要約】
【課題】  材料入口端と材料出口端を備えた細長い中空のバレル部材を有し、回転可能な押出ネジを包囲するポリマー材料を破砕し混合する装置及び方法を提供する。
【解決手段】  回転可能な押出機ネジは、少なくとも１つのフライトレスネジ部分と、軸受材料からつくられ、少なくとも１つの端部に複数の鋸歯部分を形成する少なくとも１つの静止管部材を有し、前記静止管部材は、細長い中空のバレル部材内にフライトネジ部分の周りに配置され、細長い中空バレル部材に対して回転しないように固定されている。フライトレスネジ部分は、静止管部材の鋸歯部分に対応する領域に少なくとも１つの材料溶融体溝を形成する。小さい剪断の一様な分散混合を特徴とする押出された製品は、本発明を使用して１つのネジ押出機で１つの行程で製造される。
Patent JP-2001523657-A (JP)
Title: ガンマ−ブチロラクトン、ブタン−１，４−ジオール及びテトラヒドロフランの製造方法
IPC: C07C29/149
Filed: 1998-11-02
Abstract: (57)【要約】
ブタン−1,4−ジオール、γ−ブチロラクトン及びテトラヒドロフランから選択される少なくとも１つのＣ 4 化合物を製造する方法であって、無水マレイン酸の高沸点エステル溶液をＣ 1 〜Ｃ 4 アルカノールでエステル化し、対応するマレイン酸ジ−（Ｃ 1 〜Ｃ 4 アルキル）を生成し、それは水素化されて少なくとも１つのＣ 4 化合物を生成する。高沸点エステルは、大気圧においてマレイン酸ジ−（Ｃ 1 〜Ｃ 4 アルキル）よりも約30℃高い沸点を有し、且つ、炭素数13までのアルキルジカルボン酸のジ−（Ｃ 1 〜Ｃ 4 アルキル）エステル、マレイン酸、フマル酸、コハク酸のモノ−及びジ−（Ｃ 10 〜Ｃ 18 アルキル）エステル及びそれらの混合物、ナフタレンモノカルボン酸の（Ｃ 1 〜Ｃ 4 アルキル）エステル、トリカルボン酸のトリ−（Ｃ 1 〜Ｃ 4 アルキル）エステル、及びイソフタル酸のジ−（Ｃ 1 〜Ｃ 4 アルキル）エステルから選択される。
Patent JP-2001524653-A (JP)
IPC: F17C1/16
Filed: 1998-11-12
Abstract: A composite pressure vessel for storing gaseous media under pressure, having a plastic liner two neck pieces arranged in the neck region, and a winding of a fiber composite material that reinforces the liner. In the neck piece that accommodates the valve there is provided a clamping ring which can be screwed into the neck piece and has on the outer circumference a threaded section which is adjoined by a thread-free, frustoconical section. A groove is arranged between internally threaded sections of the neck piece to accommodate a sealing ring and extends radially into the neck piece. On the outside of the respective neck piece, in the region adjoining the collar, provision is made to arrange at least one bead which extends radially outward over the entire circumference.
Patent JP-2001525333-A (JP)
Title: １６α，１７α−ジアルキル化ステロイドの調製方法
IPC: C07J5/00
Filed: 1998-11-05
Abstract: (57)【要約】
適切な溶媒中で、１６α−アルキル−１７（２０）−エニル−２０−シリルエーテルと、アルキル化剤およびエノールシリルエーテル切断剤とを反応させることによって、１６α，１７α−ジアルキル化ステロイドが、調製された。
Patent JP-2001525378-A (JP)
Title: トランスフェクション粒子
IPC: A61K47/48
Filed: 1998-11-28
Abstract: (57)【要約】
In vitro及びin vivoにおける高等真核細胞への核酸送達のためのトランスフェクション粒子は、有機カチオン性分子により縮合された1個以上の核酸分子を含む。孤立性かつ安定した粒子は、核酸分子との架橋以外による、同種又は異種の有機カチオン性前駆体分子と核酸分子との複合体化、及び前駆体分子の核酸鋳型上での互いの共有結合によって得られる。特定の細胞の標的指向化について、これらの粒子は、標的指向化分子、例えば糖を保持することができる。好ましいカチオン性前駆体分子は、連結して脂質を形成する親油性界面活性剤である。これらの粒子は、遺伝子治療のため及び巨大なDNA分子の送達のために粒子を有用なものにする核酸分子を1個のみ含むことが好ましい。
Patent JP-2002504504-A (JP)
Title: 化粧品組成物における刺激防止剤
IPC: A61K8/63
Filed: 1999-02-04
Abstract: (57)【要約】
内因性の皮膚の刺激状態であっても、ヒドロキシ酸又は特定のレチノイドによって引起された刺激状態であっても、皮膚の刺激状態を減少させるための刺激防止剤としての、化粧品スキンケア組成物におけるグルコノラクトン及び／又はグルカロラクトン。
Patent JP-2002506866-A (JP)
Title: ニトログアニジン誘導体の製法
IPC: C07D273/04
Filed: 1999-03-17
Abstract: (57)【要約】
以下の式（Ｉ）：
【化１】
 ｛式中、Ｒ 1  が水素又はＣ 1  −Ｃ 4  −アルキルであり；Ｒ 2  が水素、Ｃ 1  −Ｃ 6 −アルキル、Ｃ 2  −Ｃ 6  −アルケニル、Ｃ 2  −Ｃ 6  −アルキニル、Ｃ 3  −Ｃ 6  −シクロアルキル又はラジカル−ＣＨ 2  Ｂであり；Ａが、非置換又はモノ−〜ペンタ−置換芳香族又は非芳香族の、単環又は２環式の複素環式基であり；そしてＢが、場合により、１〜３の置換基により置換された、フェニル、３−ピリジル又はチアゾールイルである。｝により表される化合物の製法であって、以下の式（II）：
【化２】
 ｛式中、Ｒ 1  、Ｒ 2  、とＡが式（Ｉ）におけるものと同じであり、そしてＸがＯ又はＳである。｝により表される化合物を、強酸で加水分解することを特徴とする、前記製法を記載する。式（Ｉ）の化合物は、殺虫剤の製造に好適である。
Patent JP-2002510521-A (JP)
IPC: A61F2/08
Filed: 1999-04-01
Abstract: A fixation implant generally includes at least one shaft configured to securely fit into a hole formed in bone. The shaft is of sufficient length relative to the interior diameter of the hole and, in some preferred embodiments, has locking protuberances, like threads, ridges, or barbs, that resist removal of the shaft from the hole in the bone when different types of forces, such as tensile or bending forces, are applied to the implant. The shaft is generally cylindrical in shape, however, in various embodiments, different cross-sections could be used. In a preferred embodiment the implant has a flattened and bent end portion emerging from only one side of the shaft. At the other side of the implant the outer surface of the shaft and the emerging end portion form a smooth surface, without any projections. This smooth surface at the end of the implant prevents irritation of the surrounding tissue. The end portion has a mating surface configured to grip a portion of the soft tissue surrounding the hole between the bone and the mating surface. The longitudinal axis of the shaft is oriented at an angle of less than 90 degrees relative to the mating surface. In this fashion, the implant anchors soft tissue, such as rotator cuff tissue, to bone.